"TURKEY: IS ANKARA TRYING TO TAME THE RUSSIAN BEAR?
Nicholas Birch 8/14/09
There is an odd little detail at the back of a 1928 statue depicting Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, standing in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square: found among the adoring crowd of figures surrounding Ataturk, a group dominated by children and peasants, are two stern-faced men with stars on their bronze lapels. They are two Red Army generals Mikhail Frunze and Kliment Voroshilov."
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